Dock workers secure mooring lines from the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60), as it pulls in to the pier during Operation Desert Storm.
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Subject Operation/Series: DESERT STORM
Base: USS Saratoga(CV 60)
State: Jeddah
Country: Saudi Arabia(SAU)
Scene Camera Operator: STAFF SGT. Lee F. Corkran
Release Status: Released to Public
Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files
Aircraft carriers are warships that act as airbases for carrier-based aircraft. In the United States Navy, these consist of ships commissioned with hull classification symbols CV (aircraft carrier), CVA (attack aircraft carrier), CVB (large aircraft carrier), CVL (light aircraft carrier), CVN (aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion) and CVAN (attack aircraft carrier (nuclear propulsion). The first aircraft carrier commissioned into the United States Navy was USS Langley (CV-1) on 20 March 1922.
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